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dots; discal spot a conspicuous purple-red rini,^ euclosing a 

 white spot ; just outside it is a curved oblique central shade 

 of ^i^rey or ])urple-grey dustin^,' ; subteniiinal line faintly 

 indicated by small grey clouds scattered along the hind 

 marginal space ; hind margin dotted with black ; cilia white. 

 Hind wings rounded behind and having scarcely any indica- 

 tion of an angle in the middle, but the anal angle squared ; 

 white, dusted and shaded with grey or purple-grey ; near 

 the base is a short transverse line, often consisting only of 

 three or four black dots on the nervures, and following 

 directly from the first line of the fore wings ; second line 

 continued in the same manner as a waved and curved line ot 

 similar dots with cloudy connections ; central spot a distinct 

 black ring with a white centre ; touching this is a transverse 

 shade of grey atoms ; usually a more complete stripe of 

 similar clouds of grey atoms lies along the hind marginal 

 reo-ion, the extreme edge of which is dotted with black ; cilia 

 white. Female extremely similar, but with simple antenna?. 

 Underside of the fore wings white, abundantly dusted 

 with smoky-brown, excessively so towards the base ; hind 

 wings only very slightly dusted ; the second line con- 

 spicuously rippled and dotted, and continuous on all the 

 wings. Body greyish-white ; legs pale brown. 



Variable in the degree of dusting or clouding with grey or 

 purple-grey, the second generation being especially liable to 

 an increase of this, and even at times suffused or blotched 

 with reddish-grey. Specimens from Folkestone, in the 

 collection of Mr. F. J. Haubury, have beautiful dark purple 

 blotches along the hind margins. In a specimen from the 

 collection of the late Mr. F. Bond, now in that of Mr. Sydney 

 Webb, the whole surface of both fore and hind wings is 

 smooth dark gre}ish-pur])le, except the transverse lines and 

 central spots, which are white ; in another the whole surface 

 is suffused with grey, except the middle area of the fore 

 wings, which is strongly tinged with purple-red ; in a third, 

 uf similar colouring and suffusion, but less dark, the first and 



